{"product_id":"the-city-our-city-9781571314451","title":"The City, Our City","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wayne Miller\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA breakout collection that showcases the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on \"the City\"--an unnamed, crowded place filled with gunmen, lovers, children, neighbors, builders, soldiers, professors, bouncers, and widowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, Wayne Miller presents a city laden with \"kisses in doorways, weapons \/ and sculptures, concerts \/ and fistfights, sex toys and votives, \/ engines and metaphors.\" And yet the City, both unidentifiable and readily familiar, is also a place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city--past, present, and future--ring out with urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems--in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful--give hum to our modern experience, to all those caught up in the City's immensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999726977175,"sku":"9781571314451","price":789.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781571314451.webp?v=1783601548","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-city-our-city-9781571314451","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}